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    Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement
    Theory, Culture and Society 40 (7-8): 179-192. 2023.
    Indigenous-led activism against proposed oil pipelines has relied heavily on social media, as in the #NoDAPL campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This paper explores affective engagement in online activism, including the Standing Rock ‘check-in’ campaign on Facebook. Moving beyond dichotomous understandings of embodied vs digital activism, Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Mirror Shields Project employs digital media in order to support direct action at Standing Rock. Patricia Clough draws a direct…Read more
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    Breastfeeding and sexual difference: Queering Irigaray
    Feminist Theory 19 (1): 77-94. 2018.
    It is commonly assumed that only women, and in particular women who have recently given birth, are able to breastfeed. However, through induced lactation, adoptive mothers, fathers and trans people have begun breastfeeding with greater frequency. Although breastfeeding is often regarded as a paradigmatic example of sexual difference, it actually exposes the instability of binary categories of sex. Luce Irigaray insists that sexual difference demands a new poetics, a language that is dynamic and …Read more
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    Endocrine-disrupting chemicals have been identified as posing risks to reproductive health and may have intergenerational effects. However, responses to the potential harms they pose frequently rely on medicalised understandings of the body and normative gender identities. This article develops an intersectional feminist framework of intergenerational justice in response to the potential risks posed by endocrine-disrupting chemicals. We examine critiques of endocrine disruptors from feminist, cr…Read more
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    Commodifying Compassion: Affective Economies of Human Milk Exchange
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 12 (2): 92-116. 2019.
    Breastmilk is bought, sold, and donated in a global marketplace, which risks exploiting the women who produce it. In Detroit, black mothers are targeted as paid milk donors; milk from Cambodian and Indian mothers is sold to parents in the United States and Australia; and the International Breast Milk Project sends donated milk from the United States to Africa. Drawing on transnational care work and affect theory, I argue that merely refraining from paying women does not eliminate potentially har…Read more
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    Consuming Intimacies: Bodies, Labour, Care, and Social Justice - Guest Editors' Introduction
    with Andrea Doucet, Alana Cattapan, and Lindsey McKay
    Studies in Social Justice 10 (2): 194-198. 2016.
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    Intimate Labour and Social Justice: Engaging with the Work of Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
    with Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
    Studies in Social Justice 10 (2): 284-288. 2016.
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    Breastfeeding has become a subject of moral concern as its benefits have become well known. Encouraging mothers to breastfeed has been the goal of extensive public health promotion efforts. Emmanuel Levinas makes absolute responsibility to the Other central to his ethics, with giving food to the Other the paradigmatic ethical act. However, Levinas also provides an important critique of the autonomous individual who is taken for granted by breastfeeding promotion efforts. I argue that the ethical…Read more
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